Werther sat on the big chair in the drawing room, Ser Robb Stark and his wife Saran Farman sat on the left side of the long table, Lord Wyman Manderly of White Harbor in the North and his son Willis
·Ser Manderly sits on the right.
Robb came here with a family mission. With the start of the Dorne War, the spices produced from Dorne naturally could not be transported to Tyrosh for processing. However, the spices were small in size and affordable, and the trade volume accounted for 10% of the northern border.
One-third of Winter City's commercial income, White Harbor's warehouse income has also been affected. The two came here to ask about the situation of Tyrosh spices, and to see if they could find other goods.
Witte said to the person sitting at the bottom of the long table: "Arad, please bring all the spice samples from Tyrosh."
Arad Sikes was well aware of the categories and prices of all goods coming in and out of Tyrosh. He stood up and took out more than a dozen styles of vials from the cabinet next to him and placed them on the table.
His father gave him his military glory back then, making him the Earl of Stormwind Harbor. He also worked and studied conscientiously with Witte, and is now a qualified tax officer and lord. Because his family is a smuggler, he can inspect goods.
Shi could tell what contraband was in the sack by just touching it, so he was nicknamed "Ghost Hand" by the merchants who came and went.
This time, Finance Officer Gunthor Hightower was supposed to be in charge, but he had offended Werther before and was afraid that Werther would catch him if he made any mistakes again. Now he was busy dealing with family affairs, so he called in Allard.
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Arad took different products and began to introduce: "The most popular fire dragon pepper is currently insufficient in raw materials, and Tyrosi can no longer supply it."
Robb picked up the bottle of Dragon Spicy that he ate every day in Winterfell: "This spicy flavor can drive away the cold after eating it. It is very popular in the north. People in the Westerlands and the Reach have also gradually fallen in love with this taste.
Duke Werther, when will the Dornish War end?"
"I also want to end it as soon as possible, but you have to understand that marching in the desert is different from us marching inland. They have to prepare more." Witte has no choice:
"Spices can't be grown anywhere you want. It's too demanding on climate and soil. I've tried it many times in Tyrosh. After the Dornish dragon spices were grown, they lost their spiciness at all and could only be regarded as cheap.
Vegetables."
The raw materials of dragon pepper produced in Dorne are sent to Tyrosh for processing and bottling. From the east of the mainland, they are sold north to King's Landing and wholesale to the north. Winter City will break the large packages into small bottles and put their own labels on them.
Go south from the west coast of the mainland and sell it to the people of the Westerlands and the Reach.
Werther did not care about the sales of the North, and the North did not interfere with Werther's supply of goods. The two parties had a tacit agreement to only do business. Ed Stark often said that this was a bit unethical, but he still did it for many years.
However, Witte still introduced some other things to them: "Tylosi just held a wine investment fair recently. You guys happened to be late, but I still have a lot of samples here. It's cold in the north and the wine is cheap.
Wine is very good. Even if you can’t drink it, you can light it to keep warm.”
After listening to this, Arad went to the cabinet and took out a few bottles of spirits and wine glasses: "This is pear brandy from Orchard Hall, and high-strength rum from Volantis. Both wines are available in three price ranges: high, medium and low.
, you can tell just by looking at the bottle."
The simple dark thick glass bottles are the cheapest, with only a paper label attached. Mid-range wine bottles have been replaced by transparent glass, and the highest-end wine bottles are decorated with gold and silver.
Werther poured a glass of each wine to several people and asked them to taste it carefully.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!" Saran Farman's face turned red after one mouthful, and he kept coughing.
"Good wine!" The fat Earl Wyman thought these two wines were strong enough.
In the end, the two negotiated a large order for pear brandy and rum, as well as some other spices they had never seen before, and planned to take them back to see if northerners like them.
Werther: "Robb, are there any strange movements among the wildlings outside the Wall?"
Robb's face turned red after several glasses of strong wine, and his heart stopped beating. He thought for a moment: "Mance Rayder is the defected Night's Watch who calls himself the 'King Beyond the Wall'. I heard from the Night's Watch that he has recently been bringing different wildlings together."
The tribe is organized together, and some analysts say he is preparing to go south to attack the Great Wall, while others say he is going to fight the White Walkers."
"It turns out that the recent decrease in the number of wildlings coming to Tyrosh is his fault!" This guy is hiding outside the Great Wall and has no fixed abode. If you want to cause trouble for him, you have to live in the Black Castle of the Great Wall for a period of time and wait until the Night Watchman finds out before notifying him.
Witte himself thought about it and gave up this plan for the time being. As long as he did not betray humans and join the White Walkers, it would be a good thing to be able to organize savages from different tribes and beliefs.
Werther: "Is there any news about the White Walkers?"
When they heard about the White Walkers, Saran and Earl Wyman were all shocked and looked at Werther.
Robb: "Not yet, but Custer, the owner of Custer's Fortress outside the Great Wall, and his family are missing. The Night's Watch rangers came to him for supplies during a routine patrol and brought him some fire dragon peppers.
He went there, but when he arrived, his house was almost covered with snow and no one had lived in it for a long time."
"I have a bad feeling. He and his family may have defected to the White Walkers!" Witte remembered that this guy originally gave the boy he gave birth to to the White Walkers for transformation, but now the adults are also missing, and they were probably pawned.
Rape.
Robb: "Does the Night's Watch need to find him?"
"Don't go. If he joins the White Walkers, the Night's Watch alone can't defeat him." After Vert finished speaking, he thought carefully about how to deal with it.
Saran tugged at the corner of Robb's clothes: "Do White Walkers really exist?"
Earl Wyman, who was sitting opposite, also craned his neck to listen.
Robb: "There are dragons in Westeros and the Children of the Forest. The White Walkers are just a magical, intelligent race. No need to make a fuss! It's just that their way of life is in conflict with humans. The place where the White Walkers exist is
The place of death for mankind."
"Robb, when Stannis took the fleet north to capture the wildlings, he also brought some dragonglass to the Great Wall. You asked your father to write a letter to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont, and make all the dragonglass into
Make sure every dagger in the Night's Watch has one. If you don't have enough dragonglass, ask Stannis for it. His warships were barely full when they went north. I will also ask him to take a batch of the wildfire stored in King's Landing to the Great Wall.
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"Understood!" Robb nodded.
"How to fight white ghosts and ghouls? The bachelor of Castle Black has books passed down by his predecessors. You ask Commander-in-Chief Geo to find these books and let all the Night Watchmen learn from them." Witte continued, saying that he was a magician.
If you see a White Walker, you will attack it. The human army has been fighting White Walkers for many years and has its own mature methods.
After talking about the matter, Robb and Saran immediately went to the living room. Werther noticed that Saran seemed to want to say something to him, but Werther ignored her because he was not free now, and Earl Wyman was still here.<
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When Robb and Arad left, only Werther, Earl Wyman, and his eldest son were left in the room.
"Earl Wyman, you and King Robert are also comrades who have fought side by side. You know the character of our Baratheon brothers. If you have anything to say, just say it."
Seeing that he liked the pear brandy produced in the Cider Hall, Werther poured two more glasses for him and his son.
"I knew Duke Werther was an open-minded person!" Earl Wiman suffocated the wine in one gulp, exhaled a breath of hot air and said: "Duke Werther, do you know the history of our family?"
Wirth: "I only know that your family has built White Harbor into the largest port in the North. The city is also clean and tidy. Family members attach great importance to honor and have the most noble values of the ancestors. Robert often told me that you fought together in the past.
The only story is that you are too fat to walk, haha."
Earl Weiman also laughed, and he took the wine bottle and poured himself another glass of wine: "That was what happened after our family arrived in the north. Three hundred years ago, Yin Geng conquered the mainland. After several generations of kings, many
All previous history books have been destroyed or tampered with. And our Manderly family in White Harbor in the north is indeed of the blood of the ancestors, but they are not from the north, but from the Reach!"
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Witte: "The bloodline of the ancestors of the Reach? Descendants of Garth Greenhand?"
Earl Wyman: "How is it possible? Our family is their enemy! A thousand years before Yin Geng's conquest, the Peake family, the bloodline of "Fox" Floris, used conspiracy and tricks to drive us away from our home in the Reach. We are
We were forced to live in exile in the North, and we will always remember the humiliation in our hearts!"
Witte: "It's been so long, do you want to take revenge on the Baker family?"
Count Wyman: "The Peake family are not good people! Count Titus Peake's wife is Margaux Lannister. He has long been in cahoots with Tywin and wants to stab the Tyrell family in the back at any time!" Werther leaned back in his chair, thinking that the Reach seemed calm, and everyone was thinking about making money, but the thoughts in the hearts of these nobles were much more complicated than those in the Storm Land, with so much filth behind them: "Go on." Lord Wyman: "After so many years, our family can't go back to these hatreds. They have long since been put aside. Doesn't the Reach have a lot of business dealings with Duke Werther? The Tyrell lady is still Renly's wife.
I just can’t bear to see these bastards in the Reach tell Duke Werther these things.”
Werther believed half of what he said, and the power struggle was brewing in this seemingly boring rumor.
Werther also roughly guessed what he was thinking. The Reach made a fortune by following Werther and Renly's business, Mace became the finance minister, then Matus Rowan became the prime minister, and his daughter became the queen. King's Landing
After recruiting a large number of officials from the Reach, Lord Wyman became jealous when his enemy gained power!
Wirth: "Earl Wyman, Dorne is at war now, so I will focus all my energy here. Besides, the Reach is so far away from me, so it's not my turn to worry about it. King Robert will be going to the Reach recently on his cruise."
, if you need anything, come to him."
Earl Wiman smiled with a smile on his face: "That's right. It's all in the past. Let's not mention it. I came to Duke Witte this time because I actually wanted to find a position for my son in Tyrosh."
Werther looked at his son: "Oh, isn't your son the heir to White Harbor and loyal to the North?"
Earl Wyman shouted at the door: "Wendel! Come in!"
The door opened and another fat man with a round face came in, his second son Wendell Mandler, about thirty years old, with a big beard and a bald head like his father and brother.
"Good afternoon, Duke Werther!" Wendel spoke in a rough voice.
Werther still trusts the credibility of the Mandalay family. Their family attaches great importance to honor and has never violated their oath: "Haha, the shortage of men in Tyrosh has been reported to White Harbor! Wendell, please sit down first.
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Earl Wiman: "Did Duke Werther agree?"
Witte: "Count Wyman, Tyrosh has been very peaceful recently. After he comes, he will have to be assigned according to the system. If you join the army, you can only start from the rank of captain, and if you follow me to handle government affairs, you can only serve as an attendant."
"Of course he joins the army! There are no cowards in the Mandalay family! I asked him to learn Tyrosh's fighting methods from Duke Werther first, and I guess the next war will be soon." After Earl Wyman finished speaking, he took a picture from his pocket
Take out a high-interest bond issued in Mill City and place it on the table.
Werther looked at Earl Wiman, who had a big head and a thick neck. Everyone thought he was timid and only knew how to eat. In fact, this man was really smart! He turned to look at Wendel: "I think your father also told you
There will definitely be opportunities for meritorious service after joining the army, but the war is very close to Tyrosh. Can your body type withstand rigorous military training?"
Wendel: "I ate too much meat when I was in White Harbor. I just need to eat less. I can definitely keep up with the training of my brothers."
This calls the Tyroshi officers brothers. As expected, they are all familiar with each other: "Okay, you take the oath!"
Witte and others stood up, and Wendell Mandler, witnessed by his father and brother, knelt on one knee and solemnly swore allegiance to Witte.
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The "little devil" Ser Tyrion Lannister and the "big bear" Lord Jorah Mormont of Bear Island in the north were sitting on a stone eating dried scones.
"Hey, big guy over there, can you give me a drink of water?" Tyrion's mouth was so dry that he couldn't bear it.
The big officer looked at him: "50 gold dragons and a bag of water!"
Tyrion looked at him angrily: "Yesterday it was 10 gold dragons, why has the price increased again today? Send me back to the West, and I will give you 500 gold dragons!"
The tall Jorah stood up and walked to the officer: "We are not your prisoners. If you do this, it will cause a war!"
The big officer looked at the bear-headed sword hilt on Jorah's waist: "You two were arrested on suspicion of spies. The count did not confiscate your weapons because of your identities. You'd better not play any tricks!
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"Come here Jorah, don't be familiar with him, he doesn't understand anything!" Tyrion greeted.
"I remember your appearance!" Jorah glared at the officer fiercely and returned to the stone.
"Tch!" The tall officer ignored the two men and turned around to leave without leaving the water bag.
Jorah kicked a small stone away and cursed: "What a bad luck!"
"At least we're not shackled, and we have bread to eat, which is good!" Tyrion also had a wry smile on his face.
The supply of spices in Winterfell has been cut off, and the caravans on Bear Island can only rely on selling furs to the south. The profits of the caravans on Bear Island have been greatly reduced. The southerners will only use the furs as blankets on the floor, or hang a few beast heads on the wall. Demand
The quantity is indeed not high. As a lord, Jorah naturally wants to expand the supply of goods.
Jorah first arrived at Winterfell and asked Eddard to find out that the supply was indeed out of stock. After Robb's wedding, he drove Jaime Lannister back to Casterly Rock City. When he stopped at Lannister Port for supplies, he was in the tavern.
Met Tyrion.
The two of them are also well-known figures. They quickly became familiar with each other through Tyrion's natural gift of talking and chatting with each other. Tyrion was angry at home and wanted to run away, while Jorah originally wanted to go to King's Landing.
city, but the king was on a tour and wanted to visit the city of Tyroshi, which has the most developed commerce. The two hit it off immediately.
Jorah and Tyrion followed their merchant ships to the old town in the River Bend. They asked the fleet to load the goods and return to the north. They took a small number of men and took a fast ship to Tyrosh.
As a result, while supplying supplies at the Salt Coast City in the south of Dorne, he was captured by Count Tremonde Gorgenles' men as soon as he landed.
Fortunately, the appearance of the two of them was so distinctive. One was a dwarf with the crest of the Lannister family, and the other was an unattractive-looking man holding a Valyrian steel sword with a long claw. After being brought to Lord Tremonde by the soldiers, they did not
The two were imprisoned and allowed to march with the army.
In the words of Count Tremonde: Dorne has been sealed off, and anyone who comes may leak information about his troops, not to mention that the two of them are going to Tyrosh, so they can only temporarily feel sorry for them and follow them.
Jorah and Tyrion had been on the ship all the way to the supply base and were drunk in the tavern. Only now did they realize that the war in Dorne had begun.
Moreover, the Earl Tremonde he was following belonged to the Yinlonwood forces and was at war with Duke Werther's wife Nymeria. Along the way, the two of them regretted that they should not have thought of experiencing the passion of Dornish women.
The two also thought about escaping, but the military route was to go upstream along the Vance River. Once they left the water, it was desert, and they were unfamiliar with the place. Escape would be suicide, so the two stayed in the army, eating and drinking. At this time, the military camp began to become noisy. The resting officers rode Dornish's unique sand horses and began to form a team. The men and women picked up their spears and put on their leather armors and ran outside the military camp.
"Is this going to be a war? With whom?" Tyrion also put on his Lannister armor. He didn't want to die in such an unclear death.
Jorah adjusted the lock of the black leather armor: "I don't even know where we are, and I don't even know a few Dornish people!"
Earl Tremonde's bodyguards found the two men on horseback and brought them to the Earl. Now, even if they were hostages, they were bargaining chips in the negotiation.
Both men and women in Dorne are prone to fighting, and the recruited peasant troops quickly formed their formations, and the nobles raised their respective flags.
"In addition to the Gorgenless family who captured us, there turned out to be soldiers from the Vance family along the way. No wonder there are so many people." Tyrion squeezed into the crowd and let Jorah lift him up on his shoulders and sit and look around.
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Jorah: "What bad luck! Let's not rush in later to avoid misunderstanding on the other side."
Tyrion: "Don't worry, when the fighting starts, these guards won't be able to care about us anymore. Let's run behind."
The characteristic battlefield music of Dorne sounded, and various flutes were played along with the trumpets to boost morale. Jorah seemed to have returned to the time of the siege of Tyrosh. The snake-charming music was inspiring to the Dornish people.
Morale, other people can also boost their morale when they hear it, because they will want to hit them after hearing it.
The camp was full of tents and there was no need for defense. Earl Tremond asked his soldiers to occupy the top of a sand dune and form a line formation along the ups and downs of the dunes.
Opposite the defensive formation is a barren yellow Gobi desert, with smoke and dust billowing in the distance, accompanied by the roar of horse hooves.
As a breeze blew by, the attacking team emerged from the smoke and dust, and the endless Dornish cavalry were looking at this side eagerly.
When the subsequent cavalry arrived, the attackers immediately divided into two groups and launched a charge from the left and right.
The general on the left is wearing pitch black steel armor, holding a black shield and a spear, with an orange cloak and braid hanging behind him.
The general leading the right wing was also dressed in black armor. When he was about to rush to the spear formation, he jumped off his horse and ran quickly. As he ran, he drew out the two swords from behind, and his whole body was ignited with golden-red flames. He rushed to the forefront of the cavalry unit without a horse.
Ahead.
Followed by a giant dragon flying across the sky.
"Nymeria with the dragon, and Ashara Dayne, the Sword of Dawn, how do you fight this?" Jorah recognized it immediately.
"What the hell, dig a hole and hide us!" Tyrion also panicked.